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Books in the Classroom
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Children's Literature Newsletter
Free monthly email newsletters featuring classic children's literature, new books, ideas and activities to use with students, and links to other Internet resources.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Devil and Tom Walker Newsletter
Students will create a newsletter with information taken from the short story "The Devil and Tom Walker." Students will work in pairs and decide which parts of the newsletter each will be responsible for completing. The finished...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Travel Newsletter
In a role as the director of tourism for a student-selected city, state, or country, young scholars conduct online research to create travel newsletters enticing tourists to visit their chosen areas. Newsletter content includes location,...
Other
Canku Ota: Newsletter Celebrating Native America
Children of all ages will enjoy reading these authentic Native American legends. Be sure to click on "kids pages" to read other stories written by students!
Other
Project Tomorrow
Here, educators can read continuously updated reports on innovations in education. This organization is committed to ensuring that "today's students are well prepared to be tomorrow's innovators, leaders and engaged citizens of the...
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Project Tomorrow
Here, educators can read continuously updated reports on innovations in education. This organization is committed to ensuring that "today's students are well prepared to be tomorrow's innovators, leaders and engaged citizens of the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Using Google Docs to Write for Audience
Students write and digitally publish a weekly newsletter using Google Docs. The content will be a synthesis of interesting issues from their class as well as some outside news and issues which directly impact students. The target...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: On the Farm With Wilbur and Charlotte
During this unit, students will explore many aspects of the book Charlotte's Web. Students will work as a group to develop a presentation, design a web page, and prepare a newsletter. They will also complete a WebQuest about Charlotte's...
Teachnology
Teachnology: Teacher Guide to Publishing and Book Making
With the proper computer equipment and desktop publishing software students can create professional level newsletters, brochures and advertising documents. This site provides lesson plans and software tutorials for bringing desktop...
Other
Texas Association for Bilingual Education (Tabe)
TABE "is a state advocacy organization for the rights of language minority children." Its site acquaints the viewer with the organization's mission and membership ("local school districts, university student groups, and Parent...
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180
Poetry 180 is designed to make it easy for students to hear or read a poem each day of the 180 days of the school year. Poet laureate Billy Collins has selected these poems with high school students in mind.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Will It Fly?
In this lesson, students will learn about kites and gliders and how these models can help in understanding the concept of flight. Students will design and build their own balsa wood models and experiment with different control surfaces....
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: "Introduction to Poetry," by Billy Collins
"Introduction To Poetry" is, appropriately, the first poem in the Poetry 180 site. Collins describes how he wishes students would read poetry, as opposed to the way they are trained to read it.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Listen and Read: Meet the President: Activity 1
Follow the President of the United States as he signs laws, meets with foreign leaders, and leads our armed forces in this audio article for young students.
Read Works
Read Works: Right On
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a program called "Do Something About It" designed to teach kids about the Bill of Rights. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Kites
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept teaches students the properties of kites and how to apply them.
Other
International Cello Society
A website devoted to the cello. Site appears to be very "open" to the non-member. Teachers and students will want to visit the Forum and Tips pages. Also, check out the MP3's!
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Creating a Newletter
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students enrolled in computer applications, computer literacy, or desktop publishing classes learn the basics of creating a newsletter.
Other
National Association of Colleges and Employers
NACE provides services such as annual employer/college surveys, salary survery of newly hired college graduates, journal, and newsletter. They publish the Job Choices and Planning Job Choices every September for college students.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Poetry Unzipped: Robert Frost [Pdf]
Two page, PDF file handout about the poem "Stopping by a Woods on a Snowy Evening." Provides a copy of the poem and instructions on how to interpret it, including a student model and questions.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Baseball and Social Change: The Story of Roberto Clemente
In this blended lesson supporting literacy skills, students learn about baseball legend Roberto Clemente, his early years in the United States during segregation, and changes in the 1960s that made the U.S. culture more open to...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Get the Word Out at Mc Donalds!
Students take part in a hypothetical scenario that challenges them to inform customers at a local restaurant of how their use and disposal of plastics relates/contributes to the Great Pacific garbage patch (GPGP). What students...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Pickle Ball
Lesson plan where students first learn about pickle-ball through a provided slideshow presentation. Next, students create a newsletter about the sport. Meanwhile, students will learn how to play pickle-ball and end with a singles and...
Other
The Dirksen Congressional Center
An effective site that provides non-partisan information concerning Congress and its leaders. The website includes CongressLink, up-to-date information on the US Congress; Congress for Kids, an excellent resource for younger students on...